Rules to make tasks incomplete and unassign

[anon96884958]

In order to properly manage our product development process we would require automated rules to make tasks incomplete and unassign tasks from current dev to nobody?
Is that on the roadmap? Currently you can only complete tasks and assign tasks - but not the opposite?

Thx in Advance! All the best,
Karl

[Marie]

i @anon96884958 and welcome to the Asana Community Forum!

Thank you so much for sharing your feedback with us! We already have 2 similar threads on these topics, so if you haven’t yet, I’d recommend you to upvote them

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